Well, writing. More accurately, revising, but that includes writing. And also fishing, in a way, though gardening analogies have always come more readily to me for the creative process. Perhaps that's because I put my hands in dirt waaaaay more than I ever drop bait in water. However I envision it, next week I'm Kingston …
It’s hot.
Next to me is THE CITY ALWAYS WINS by Omar Robert Hamilton...
Poetry & Politics: UK Version
I have won The votes That were in your Election And which You wanted To use As your mandate Forgive me They were So strong And so stable -Cal King @mynameiscal
RIP Denis Johnson
White, White Collars We work in this building and we are hideous in the fluorescent light, you know our clothes woke up this morning and swallowed us like jewels and ride up and down the elevators, filled with us, turning and returning like the spray of light that goes around dance-halls among the dancing fools. …
Writing About Politics
Can literary output have a role to play in our political future? Whether or not literature has any impact on politics, I do think we owe it to ourselves and to our readers to reckon with socio-political circumstances in our writing. The question then becomes: how to do this without losing ambiguity or artful nuance …
I Will Stay Sober, But You Don’t Have To
There's a new reading series at The Beer Diviner Taproom in Troy, NY on the last Sunday of every month. I am the guest presenter for March. The format involves a reading, discussion, and then the readers leads the audience in a writing exercise or two that is connected to her practice in some way. …
George Saunders on Writing
There is so much in this article I felt compelled to share without much comment save to say writers: read this. "What does an artist do, mostly? She tweaks that which she’s already done. There are those moments when we sit before a blank page, but mostly we’re adjusting that which is already there. The …
